ISBN:
9781666917239
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1666917230
Language:
English
Pages:
xvi, 262 Seiten
,
Illustrationen
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24 cm
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
Keywords:
Diaspora
;
Methodologie
;
Afrikaforschung
;
Afrika
;
African diaspora / Study and teaching (Higher)
;
Africa / Study and teaching (Higher)
;
Africa / History / 1960-
;
Afrique / Histoire / 1960-
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African diaspora / Study and teaching (Higher)
;
Education, Higher
;
Africa
;
Since 1960
;
History
;
Afrika
;
Diaspora
;
Afrikaforschung
;
Methodologie
Abstract:
"Critical Dimensions of African Studies emphasizes a critique of power structures, the promotion of human liberation, a commitment to social justice and transformation, and critical reflection on the politics of the production and circulation of knowledge of Africa"--
Description / Table of Contents:
Introduction / by Jennifer De Maio, Suzanne Scheld, and Tom Spencer-Walters -- Tom Spencer-Walters: Intellectual Freedom Fighter / by Selase W. Williams -- Terms Matter: The Use of "Tribe" in African Studies / by Jennifer L. De Maio and Daniel N. Posner -- Speaking Africa: Re-Membering Africa through Language, Culture, and Aesthetics / by Sheba Lo -- "Africa for the Africans" Garvey & African Transnationality: The Idea of Flexible Citizenship / by W. Gabriel Selassie I -- "Back Home This Never Would Have Happened": Imagining Tradition and Modernity Among Ugandan Pentecostals in Los Angeles / by Kevin Zemlicka -- Bumuntu Humanism and "Values Discourse": Reflection on the Importance of African Studies in Our Tumultuous Time / by Mutombo Nkulu-N'Sengha -- "Working the Past:" Memory, Language, and Echoes of Slavery in Ama Ata Aidoo's The Dilemma of a Ghost and Anowa / by Raquel Kennon -- The Power of Memory and Language: Counter-Stories as Oppositional Remembering / by Renee M. Moreno -- Marché Sandaga: The Language of the Built Environment in Remembering and Re-Membering / by Suzanne Scheld -- Africa's Adult Literacy Landscape in The Age of Globalization: A Path to Increased Access and Change / by Daphne W. Ntiri -- Remembering Africa: Memory and The Narrative Imagination in the Polio Survivor's Experience / by Rodney B. Hume-Dawson -- Reconciling Traditional and Nontraditional Approach to Mental Health Services: African Diaspora Experience / by Senait Admassu, Kofi Peprah, and Edwin Aimufua -- Conclusion -- Afterword / by Tom Spencer-Walters
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